John Torode served up tasty festive side dishes that include frozen peas, red cabbage and stuffing on This Morning.
The ingredients for the cabbage are: 30g butter, 300g onion, finely chopped, 1 red cabbage, about 1kg, cut into 1cm slices, 2 large apples, peeled, quartered and cored, Finely grated zest of 2 oranges, 200ml red wine vinegar, 150g brown sugar, 20g juniper berries, crushed, 2 bay leaves, 5g salt and 5g freshly ground pepper.
For the stuffing: 30g butter, 2 medium sized onions, chopped, 6 rashers streaky bacon, chopped, 10 leaves of sage, torn, 100g fresh breadcrumbs, 360g vacuum packed cooked chestnuts, finely chopped or crumbled, 3 Granny Smith apples, unpeeled and grated, 200g pork sausage meat, 10 sage leaves, for garnish, 6 rashers of bacon, to top and Salt and pepper.
For the peas: 2 shallots, sliced thinly, 20g butter, White pepper, finely ground, 1 large branch of rosemary, 1 chicken stock cube, 400g frozen peas, Small tub of creme fraiche and 1 tsp creamed or fresh horseradish.
See recipes by John in his book titled: My Kind of Food: Recipes I Love to Cook at Home available from Amazon now.